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From: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
To: qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] qemu-img.texi: Provide more info on some commands’ output
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 09:59:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190515075917.24980-1-mreitz@redhat.com> (raw)

Most qemu-img subcommands that have (optional) JSON output don’t
describe the structure of their JSON output -- but having a fixed,
well-known output structure kind of is the point of having JSON output
at all.  Therefore, patch 1 in this series makes every such command note
which QAPI type their JSON output has in the qemu-img man page.  (The
exception to this is the map subcommand, which does not emit a
QAPI-typed object.  It already has a description of the structure of its
output object, though.)

That should be enough to thoroughly explain the machine-readable output.
But we can also do better for the human-readable output: qemu-img info
emits quite a bit of information, and not all of it is self-explanatory.
In patch 2, I’ve tried to provide some potentially missing explanation.


Max Reitz (2):
  qemu-img.texi: Be specific about JSON object types
  qemu-img.texi: Describe human-readable info output

 qemu-img.texi | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

-- 
2.21.0



             reply	other threads:[~2019-05-15  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-15  7:59 Max Reitz [this message]
2019-05-15  7:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qemu-img.texi: Be specific about JSON object types Max Reitz
2019-05-15  7:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-img.texi: Describe human-readable info output Max Reitz
2019-05-20 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] qemu-img.texi: Provide more info on some commands’ output Kevin Wolf

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